LOS ANGELES, CA – Katy Butler, a bullied high school student from Michigan, delivered more than 200,000 petition signatures to the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) today, urging the MPAA to lower its “R” rating on the upcoming film “Bully” to “PG-13.” Butler, who experienced severe bullying in school, says that the MPAA’s “R”…
Former Growing Pains star and evangelist Kirk Cameron is responding to backlash he received in wake of his anti-gay, anti-lesbian remarks of homosexuality being “unnatural” and “ultimately destructive” following his interview with Piers Morgan Friday. The fallen TV idol issued a written statement to ABC News in which he says it’s his mission to love…
Photo Credit: Change.org/Tico Almeida WASHINGTON, DC – More than 100,000 people have joined Tico Almeida’s campaign on Change.org urging President Obama to sign an executive order banning anti-gay discrimination among federal contractors. Tico Almeida, Founder and President of Freedom to Work, started the petition on Change.org to call attention to the millions of workers at…
Tuesday evening, the Uptown Planners, a city recognized community-planning advisory board representing seven communities including Hillcrest, handed a significant victory to the LGBT Community by backing a proposal to rename Blaine Avenue to Harvey Milk Way. Blaine Avenue runs about five blocks from the LGBT Center to Cleveland Avenue. The proposal had significant resistance as…
The SD Hoops Closing Party in San Diego will take place on Mar. 14 from 6:30 to 8:30 pm at Pecs. The organization will have free food for the players as well as MillerCoors drink specials. All players in attendance will receive a raffle ticket which may earn them a prize in our drawing. Awards…
The Anoka-Hennepin School District settled a federal civil rights investigation Monday stemming from a lawsuit filed last summer, closing a long legal battle in the district’s anti-discrimination policies for students who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender. Following the district’s pledge to improve the treatment of LGBT students, the White House released a proposed consent…
Join the San Diego LGBT community in collecting food donations this month for women in the greater area who suffer from HIV. Up to 94% of HIV-positive women and their families in San Diego suffer from food insecurity. They don’t know where tomorrow’s meals will come from. The UC San Diego Antiviral Research Center invites…
UnitedGREEN, a movement that engages communities “… in a shared fight for a truly sustainable future,” will hold its second Forging a Sustainable Future (FSF) symposium March 3 and 4 at San Diego State University. This year’s event features several prominent members of the LGBT community among the presenters and organizers. The two-day event will…
Theresa Erickson, a 2010 columnist for San Diego LGBT Weekly on gay parenting, was sentenced Feb. 24 to five months in federal prison and seven months home confinement in an adoption scheme that the U.S. attorney described as a “baby selling ring.” Erickson, 44, of Ramona, an expert on reproductive law, resigned her state bar…
TRENTON, N.J. – In response to the plaintiff’s request for reconsideration, a New Jersey Superior Court has reinstated the federal equal protection claim in a Lambda Legal case seeking marriage equality on behalf of Garden State Equality and seven same-sex couples and their children harmed by the state’s unequal civil union system. Garden State Equality,…
